>would say that European countries get along like "a sack of horns."

True words of wisdom.

> Hopefully they were wrong :-)

They weren't. EU membership and cooperation is built on favoritism and necessity. You get into the EU if you have something of value the other members need from you (capital, geopolitical, industrial, human or natural resources) done via treaties instead of via war and conquest.

So it ended up as a toxic relationship where members exploit each other to get as much as they can while contributing as little as they can.

@Ukraine, you'll experience this when you get your turn, just ask Romania.